Autonomous Excavators and Earthmoving Robots
Autonomy kits and purpose-built machines that dig, grade and move dirt with little or no operator in the cab.
30 robots · 39 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Earthmoving · 29
- Demolition · 1
Robots
Built Robotics
Komatsu
XCMG
BOMAG
Gravis Robotics
AIM Intelligent Machines
HD Hyundai
Sandvik
Companies
- Built Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2016
Aftermarket autonomy for excavators and pile drivers. The Exosystem bolts onto existing iron in a day.
- Caterpillar · Irving, United States · founded 1925
Cat Command lets one operator run heavy iron remotely or semi-autonomously - mining, civil, and the big cuts.
- Komatsu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1921
Intelligent Machine Control is factory-fitted GPS and blade automation. Machines stop at design grade by themselves.
- Gravis Robotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
RACK retrofits excavators with terrain-aware autonomous digging. Swiss perception stack, existing iron.
- Bedrock Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
Waymo-alumni autonomy for 20–80 ton excavators. Supervised mass excavation already moving tens of thousands of cubic yards.
- Volvo CE · Gothenburg, Sweden · founded 1832
Autonomous and electric haulers and excavators. Autonomy as an earnings line, not an innovation booth.
- Teleo · Palo Alto, United States · founded 2020
Remote operation of standard heavy equipment over the internet. One experienced operator, multiple machines, no relocation.
- AIM Intelligent Machines · Espoo, Finland · founded 2018
AI retrofit for excavators and loaders. Perception and control that bolts onto iron already in the fleet.
- Pronto · San Francisco, United States · founded 2017
Autonomy for haul trucks on mines and mass earthmoving. The long, dusty loop that nobody wants to drive at 2 a.m.
- Xpanner · Santa Fe Springs, United States · founded 2019
Korean-founded, California-based autonomous excavation. Terrain modeling and machine control for civil cuts.
- John Deere · Moline, United States · founded 1837
SmartGrade and autonomous construction equipment. The yellow iron that already knows the surface model.
- The Boring Company · Bastrop, United States · founded 2016
Prufrock tunnel-boring machines. Not a jobsite mascot - a TBM aimed at civil contractors who still bid tunnels.
- Trimble · Westminster, United States · founded 1978
Earthworks machine control, layout, and the total station that still runs the civil site. The stack most GCs already own.
- Topcon · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1932
3D machine control and layout. Dozers and excavators that already know the surface.
- Liebherr · Bulle, Switzerland · founded 1949
Earthmoving and cranes with operator-assist and machine control. The other yellow iron.
- Hitachi Construction · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1910
ICT excavators and autonomous haul. Japanese machine control on dirt that still has to move.
- JCB · Rocester, United Kingdom · founded 1945
LiveLink, machine control, and hydrogen iron. The backhoe that still shows up on every civil job.
- Epiroc · Stockholm, Sweden · founded 2018
Autonomous drill rigs and underground loaders. Mining construction, not a press-demo arm.
- Sandvik · Sandviken, Sweden · founded 1862
AutoMine loaders and trucks. The underground loop that used to need a person in the cab.
- Sany · Changsha, China · founded 1989
Chinese heavy iron and 3D construction printers. The gantry that already prints apartment walls at volume.
- Zoomlion · Changsha, China · founded 1992
Cranes, pumps, and construction automation from Hunan. The other Changsha OEM.
- HD Hyundai · Seongnam, South Korea · founded 1972
Smart construction machine control and concept autonomous excavators. Korean iron, digital grade.
- Bobcat · West Fargo, United States · founded 1958
Compact loaders with machine control and remote options. The machine that still fits through a gate.
- Autonomous Solutions · Logan, United States · founded 2000
Mobius autonomy for industrial vehicles. Utah, mines, the unmanned loop.
- RCT · Perth, Australia · founded 1975
Remote and autonomous control for mining and earthmoving. Perth, the teleremote cab.
- XCMG · Xuzhou, China · founded 1943
Chinese heavy iron with driverless rollers and pavers already running highway jobs. The fleet that paves without a cab.
- Liugong · Liuzhou, China · founded 1958
Guangxi OEM. Factory-fit 3D machine control on excavators with Leica - grade from the cab, not a aftermarket sticker.
- Shantui · Jining, China · founded 1980
Shandong Heavy Industry’s dozer shop. The DE26-X3 is an AI electric unmanned bulldozer already on an open-pit dump - the cab is a control room.
- Kajima · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1840
A⁴CSEL - a GC that automated its own iron. Unmanned rollers, dozers, dumps, and excavators on Japanese dams, run from a room in Minato.
- BOMAG · Boppard, Germany · founded 1957
ROBOMAG is a cab-less tandem roller that already knows the mat. Fayat iron, Kaiserslautern autonomy, German asphalt.
- Crewline · Buda, United States · founded 2023
Autonomy kit that retrofits vibratory drum rollers - dozers on the 2026 roadmap. Buda, Texas. $7.1M seed. The iron you already own, unsupervised on the pass.
- Chinougijutsu · Osaka, Japan · founded 1982
OEM-agnostic excavator autonomy kits - hundred-plus machines robotized claimed. Osaka. FDMA firefighting heritage, US inquiry channel open.
- BuilderX Robotics · Beijing, China · founded 2020
AI-assisted remote and autonomous heavy-equipment control for jobsites. Beijing. Teleoperation platform with autonomy path - CB Insights profiled, corporate site live.
- Elgo-Plus · Brzesc Kujawski, Poland · founded 2012
Springer Eco is a battery-electric remote mini-excavator / demolition robot - about 1.1 t, 80 cm wide. Brzesc Kujawski. EU dealer listings live.
- Wacker Neuson · Munich, Germany · founded 1848
RTLx-SC3 is a remote-controlled trench roller with infrared control for compaction in trenches too tight for a ride-on. Munich. Compaction fleet OEMs know the yellow.
- Hidromek · Ankara, Turkey · founded 1978
HMK 130 CS Teleopera is a cabless remote/autonomous soil compactor shown at Bauma - sensor mast, no ride-on cab. Ankara. Heavy-equipment OEM going teleoperated.
- TerraFirma · Buda, United States · founded 2023
SpaceX-alum retrofit autonomy for excavators, dozers, loaders, and rollers - Robot Ranch HQ in Buda. Live Texas earthwork, site prep, and demolition with remote/semi-autonomous crews.
- Carbon Origins · San Francisco, United States · founded 2021
Bobby is an AI + VR-supervised multipurpose compact track loader for solar, earthwork, dust control, and material handling. San Francisco roots, Minneapolis ops heritage. Hire-the-robot model on live sites.
- BotCrew · Duluth, United States · founded 2021
Gravion is a purpose-built ultra-low-profile diesel UGV for utility-scale solar and construction yards - Duluth, MN. RaaS leases across US solar sites for cable pull, microtrench, mow, snow, and material haul with 20+ attachments.
Frequently asked questions
- What is an autonomous excavator?
- An excavator fitted with sensors and software so it can dig and load to a plan without a person at the controls.
- Which companies are on the autonomous excavators and earthmoving robots list?
- Future of Built lists 39 companies here, including Built Robotics, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Gravis Robotics, Bedrock Robotics, Volvo CE, Teleo and AIM Intelligent Machines.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (15), China (6), Japan (5), Sweden (3), Germany (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 30 robots on this page, 21 deployed, 8 pilot, 1 production, per the Future of Built file.